Lima syndrome

This was the worst week for Bai Zhiyan. He was still in a daze until Monday. Perhaps the only good thing was that the swelling on his face had gone down.

Driver Zhou noticed that he looked pale while driving, and asked worriedly, "Master Zhiyan, are you feeling unwell? I see that you look pale, do you need to ask for leave to go home and rest?"

"It's okay, Driver Zhou. I just didn't sleep well."

Seeing him say this, Driver Zhou didn't ask any more questions.

After getting off the bus, Bai Zhiyan walked towards the teaching building in a daze. He always felt that people around him were talking about him, and he received a lot of stares along the way. This strange atmosphere disappeared when he arrived at the classroom.

When Liu Zhimin saw him coming to the class, he jumped up to him and exclaimed after seeing his face: "Brother Zhiyan, what's wrong with you? You look so bad."

Why does everyone keep saying that he looks bad? Bai Zhiyan didn’t even look in the mirror when he went out this morning. It seems that he is in really bad condition.

"It's nothing, I just didn't sleep well last night."

This is the truth. He started having nightmares since the night he was bitten by Che Jingcan's dog. He dreamed of the time when he was bullied in his previous life. At that time, he kept fighting back. For every bit of resistance he put in, they would hit him back twice as hard. The harder he resisted, the more they bullied him.

Bai Zhiyan had always been a man of integrity since he was a child. However, since he came to Silver Star, the little bit of pride he had was abruptly shattered by them.

He remembered that group of people called this process "dog training". They wanted to train him into a good dog who would only obey orders and not resist his master. Until the end of the dream, he saw himself being forced to wear a collar and lie on the ground, looking up at the arrogant Che Jingcan in an embarrassed manner.

"Forehead--"

Bai Zhiyan felt a splitting headache when he recalled this. He shouldn't think about the unbearable past.

"Brother Zhiyan! Brother Zhiyan, are you okay? I, I'll take you to the infirmary!"

As she spoke, Liu Zhimin put her arm around his shoulders and was about to stand up, but she was petite and much thinner than Bai Zhiyan, so she couldn't help him at all.

Xu Shiyuan had been observing them. When he saw Liu Zhimin trying to help him, he quickly came over to separate the two of them: "Let me do it. You go back to your seat first. Class is about to start. I'll take him to the infirmary and then ask for leave from the head teacher."

Liu Zhimin hesitated for a moment and finally agreed: "Okay, please, squad leader, you must take good care of Brother Zhiyan."

Xu Shiyuan nodded to her calmly, but when he turned around his eyes were terribly cold. He thought Liu Zhimin's words were ridiculous. With what identity and position did she ask him to take care of Bai Zhiyan.

He gently lifted up Bai Zhiyan and let his body lean against him. He was slightly taller than Bai Zhiyan, and compared to Liu Zhimin, he would not feel burdened when he supported Bai Zhiyan.

"Thank you, squad leader..."

After the headache, Bai Zhiyan felt weak all over. He wanted to stand up and walk but he couldn't muster any strength.

Xu Shiyuan held down his restless body: "Don't move, I'll help you over."

"it is good……"

He was so weak that he had no strength to struggle anymore, so he simply hung on Xu Shiyuan and used his strength to walk to the infirmary little by little.

The faint lemon scent from Bai Zhiyan wafted into his nostrils. Xu Shiyuan slowed down his pace, carefully holding him until he put him on the bed in the infirmary.

The school doctor took his temperature and found that he did have a fever, so he prescribed some medicine for him. Xu Shiyuan helped him take off his coat and then went to get him some water and feed him medicine.

"Zhiyan, Zhiyan, get up and drink the medicine first."

He sat down at the head of the bed and gently helped Bai Zhiyan sit up. After testing the water temperature, he handed him the medicine.

"Thank you……"

After seeing that he had swallowed the medicine, Xu Shiyuan asked him to drink a few more sips of water. Bai Zhiyan obediently drank a few more sips of water.

Xu Shiyuan helped to tidy up the bedding and helped him lie down. He noticed that Bai Zhiyan wore a high-necked top under his coat today. Worried that he would be uncomfortable, he asked him if he needed to change his clothes.

Bai Zhiyan, who was originally pale, suddenly changed his expression when he heard his words: "No, it's okay! I don't need to change clothes, just leave it like this."

"okay."

Xu Shiyuan felt that he was in a bad mood, but he didn't ask much. He tucked him in and waited for him to fall asleep before returning to class.

Bai Zhiyan hadn't woken up until the lunch break was over. Xu Shiyuan came over with his lunch box and milk bought from the school convenience store. He originally wanted to have lunch with him in the infirmary, but it seemed that he could only wait for him to wake up.

Xu Shiyuan looked at his face in his sleep. Without the big-framed glasses, Bai Zhiyan's face was as small as a palm. There was an almost undetectable brown mole above the end of his right eye. It was usually hidden in the folds of his eyelids when his eyes were open and could only be seen when he closed his eyes.

Now his relationship with Bai Zhiyan is getting closer and closer. He is thinking about his future. He knows that Bai Zhiyan's father is the chairman of Rijiang Group. If he graduates, can he go to work in that company by virtue of being Bai Zhiyan's friend?

Bai Zhiyan is so easy to talk to. If I tell him my intention, will he agree?

Xu Shiyuan looked at him sleeping thoughtfully.

But Bai Zhiyan in the dream was not as relaxed as he seemed. He fell into a nightmare again. This time he dreamed that not long after he entered the Bai family, Bai Jitai deliberately poured boiling soup on himself while eating. The hot soup splashed on the wounds where he was beaten at school, from his chest to his abdomen. His body was burned and bruised, and it was stinging and painful.

“It’s hot… so hot…”

The burning sensation was still real even in the dream. Bai Zhiyan broke out in a cold sweat due to the pain, and his hands were shaking as he pulled at his clothes.

"hot……"

"Ji Yan, don't move."

Xu Shiyuan didn't know what he was dreaming about and why he kept pulling at his clothes. Seeing how painful he looked, he had to hold down his moving hands.

"It's not hot anymore, Zhiyan, don't move."

He gently comforted Bai Zhiyan who was in a nightmare. After seeing Bai Zhiyan calm down, Xu Shiyuan picked up the quilt that he had kicked away. His clothes were deformed after being pulled by him, and the hem of his shirt was half opened. When Xu Shiyuan saw it, he quickly pulled down his clothes and covered him with the quilt.

Bai Zhiyan's collar was also loosened, and the fabric of the collar was soaked with sweat and was loosely hanging on his neck. Xu Shiyuan was afraid that he would feel uncomfortable, so he wanted to fold down a piece of the collar to wipe the sweat off his face.

"this--"

Xu Shiyuan took a breath when he saw the teeth marks on Bai Zhiyan's neck. He stared at the mark on his neck with his eyes wide open in disbelief, and then he tore open his collar again as if to verify it.

He was wrong.

In fact, he had no idea what kind of person Bai Zhiyan was. Even if he was an illegitimate child, he was still the son of a chaebol family. That group of playboys always had a lot of fun. Could Bai Zhiyan be one of them?

Xu Shiyuan has always imposed his own ideas on him, and he has no idea what Bai Zhiyan is like in private.

Xu Shiyuan sat back in his chair. His eyes turned red when he saw the mark in front of him. He reached out and pulled Bai Zhiyan's collar back.

But who could do this to Bai Zhiyan? Was it Liu Zhimin? Only Liu Zhimin was following Bai Zhiyan around like a tail. If it was her, how far had they progressed? They left marks on their bodies, which meant that their relationship must be something special, right?

He thought about how he had just been sneering at her relationship with Bai Zhiyan, but he didn't expect that in the end it seemed that he was the one who had no relationship at all.

But what's so good about Liu Zhimin! A bad-tempered young lady raised by capitalists, she looks difficult to please. What else does she have besides a pretty face and a sweet mouth?

Liu Zhimin was the bad guy who ruined his plan, and he couldn't just watch something that was within his grasp being snatched away.

Xu Shiyuan's rationality burned out when he saw the mark on his body. A trace of anger appeared on his usually pale and gloomy face, but the raging rage in his heart had already burned the last thread in his brain.

He told himself not to think about these trivial things. He was willing to get along with Bai Zhiyan in the beginning only because he felt guilty. Now he just wanted to use his background to get ahead. No matter how much he spent in private, it had nothing to do with him.

After an unknown amount of time, Bai Zhiyan finally escaped from the nightmare. He blinked blankly, wondering where he was. He propped himself up and sat up, and saw Xu Shiyuan with a gloomy face.

"Squad leader, you are here."

During the time he was sleeping, Xu Shiyuan had experienced tens of thousands of landslides and tsunamis in his mind. He suppressed his doubts and did not ask him about the matter on his neck.

"Well, drink some water first." He handed over a glass of water.

"Thank you." Bai Zhiyan took it and drank it in small sips.

Bai Zhiyan saw that Xu Shiyuan looked unhappy and seemed to be angry. Could something have happened while he was sleeping?

"What did you do on your day off to get sick?"

Xu Shiyuan's voice broke his wild thoughts. When he thought of his gloomy weekend, his face suddenly fell.

"Nothing, just a little trouble."

"Troubles? What troubles?"

Bai Zhiyan didn't know what to say, and there was no need to tell him about his affairs. He hesitated for a moment and decided to brush it off.

"Nothing, nothing important."

"What? You can't tell me?" Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Xu Shiyuan became more certain of his guess. Bai Zhiyan must have had a date with someone over the weekend and even allowed the other person to leave marks on his body.

"It's nothing really."

"Did you make a date?"

Xu Shiyuan's cold and abrupt voice sounded, and Bai Zhiyan didn't understand what he was saying: "What? What about making an appointment?"

Seeing his confused expression, Xu Shiyuan gritted his teeth, wondering if he was pretending to be stupid.

Bai Zhiyan noticed that he looked a little strange and his eyes were fixed on him. He recalled that something was wrong with Xu Shiyuan since he woke up. His behavior was very tough and the tone he spoke to him was not the same as usual.

Could it be that he discovered that I had ulterior motives for approaching him?

This is impossible. He quickly rejected this conjecture. Now in this life, no one knows that he was reborn. It can only mean that Xu Shiyuan is dissatisfied with other things. It is very likely that something happened while he was asleep.

Thinking of this, Bai Zhiyan tried to speak and test: "Squad leader, are you not in a good mood today? Did someone tell you about me? Did someone say something bad about me again? That's why you ask me like this..."

In order to match his cautious tone, he also put on an aggrieved expression, pursed his lips and drooped his eyes, occasionally looking up at him.

Bai Zhiyan's little face already had a feeling of being weak and delicate, and now with such an aggrieved and depressed expression on his face, he looked quite pitiful.

Xu Shiyuan realized that he had overreacted, and fearing that he would be discovered, he immediately made amends.

"No, no one is talking nonsense. I just saw that you always don't take care of your body and I was anxious for a moment. It's not because someone said anything about you. I don't mean to blame you."

He seldom comforted others, and almost all his words of comfort were directed at Bai Zhiyan. For a moment, he was at a loss as to what to do.

"So don't be sad, okay?"